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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

VOL. 43, NO.1

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DETROIT. MICHIGAN, JANUARY 4, 1946

Ghost of Hitler Stalks Once •Vlore;
Secret World Jewish Plot is Charged

Russian Frontier
Head of UNRRA in Germany
Closed To Jews
Charges Tale of Jewish Suffering
Is Plot For Mass Exodus To Palestine Escaping Poland

Gerverkshaften Opens Drive
In City-Wide Conference

With Miss Helen Waren, eminent star of stage and

BERLIN (JTA) — Acting on a radio as the guest speaker, the Nat'l Committee for Pal-
The blood of the martyred, slaughtered Jews is crying decision taken by the Kommand- estine, American supporters of the Histadrut (General
antur, in which the American,
aloud from the ground where they lie buried, from the cre- British, French and Russian mili- Federation of Jewish Workers in Palestine) officially
authorities are represented, will launch the Annual Geverkshaften drive in Detroit,
matoriums where they were burned, from the prisons where tary
the Soviet authorities have closed
they were tortured. The 'world perforce has had to listen the frontier through which Jews
escaping from Poland have been
for the cry is anguished and bitter. And now comes the entering the Russian zone of Ber-
lin en route to displaced persons
answer to that cry.
camps in the American and Brit-
"It is a plot," says Lt. General Sir Frederic Morgan, ish zones.
The decision was taken when it
chief of UNRRA in Germany. "It is a Jewish plot, with was also decided to evacuate NEW YORK (JTA) — The Na-
about 4,000 Polish Jews from Ber-
Refugee Service has an-
a secret Jewish force determined to get a mass exodus to lin into the three western. zones tional
nounced that preparations are be-
of Germany. Forty-eight hours no- ing made "to extend a warm wel-
Palestine."
tice was given by the RusSian au- come" to displaced persons who
He denies there arc pogroms in Poland. All the Jews thorities before closing their bor- will be permitted to enter the
der.
United States under President
he sees, he avers, are well dressed and well fed. They all tell
As a result of this drastic meas- Truman's directives of last week
admit 3,900 a month under the
atrocity stories with the same details. Not of what happened ure, which caused consternation to
among displaced Jews in the Am- existing immigration quota.
to them but of "what happened in some nearby town." The erican and British zones, who were Prof. Joseph P. Chamberlain,
expecting to be united with sur-
Jew is playing on the sympathies of a kindly world. He aims viving relatives from Poland, chairman of the board of the\
N.R.S., revealed that local refugee
about 800 Polish Jews were ar- aid committees in many communi-
to force the world to give him Palestine.
rested in the Russian zone and ties have expressed readiness to
What a lie! What a cold, calculated, brutal, inhuman transferred to Magdeburg prison. accept definite numbers of the
Other Jewish refugees were ar- 900 refugees who will be released
IIELEN WAREN
lie! Few of the savage cruelties, the wanton, beastly, cold- rested on the frontier.
rom the Oswego Emergency Shel- on Sunday, at a city-wide Confer-
The general feeling here is the
blooded tortures that the Nazis passed on as their contribu- British and the American military ter under President Truman's or- ence to start at 1:30 p.m., at the
der. Sonic communities actually
in Germany do not com- have funds earmarked for the re- Brown Memorial Chapel, Temple
tion to this age have exceeded this one in utter, calculated officers
prehend the tragic situation of the settlement of these refugees, he Beth El.
Jews in Poland. Some of them are
Helen Waren, who left the
mercilessness.
trying to create the impression declared.•
Broadway hit, "The Searching
Weak, starving, hunted Jews have walked, WALKED, that the Jews are fleeing from The United States Committee Wind," to play the leading role in
Poland because they are stimulat- for the Care of European Chil- the overseas company of the play,
all the way from Poland to Germany to escape their per- ed by Zionist propaganda to do so, dren and the European Jewish "Ten Little Indians" has just re-
also because of the fact that Children's Aid will be ready to ex- turned from a year's tour of Eu-
secutors. Reports have come in of the number dying daily! and
they do not receive sufficient pro- tend their programs to youngsters rope's war-torn countries. Miss
Estimates have been made of how soon the Jews in Europe tection from the Polish Govern- who under the President's plan Waren is well known to both radio
ment against anti-Semitic terror. will constitute a large part of the and theatre audiences, having ap-
Open and camouflaged anti-Jewish ref u g e e immigration, Professor peared in a number of Broadway
would all be dead.
are noticeable among Chamberlain stated.
plays, including the lead in "Hav-
No less a person than Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said that sentiments
most of the British officers and
"The EJCA, an affiliate of the ing a Wonderful Time" and Geo.
even
among
some
Americans.
Only
herself, with her own lips. And her information came from
National Refugee Service, took Coulouris' production of "Richard
the French display any deep hu- care of a group of orphaned and III." Simultaneously, she was be-
manitarian understanding for the homeless children brought to this ing starred by N.B.C. in several
this selfsame UNRRA. And now there is a plot!
Jews who are escaping from Po-
Yes, there is a plot. It is a plot on the part of ENG- land, it was stressed by responsi- country before and during the
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war. With the collaboration of lo-
LAND to discredit the suffering of the Jewish people. It is a ble Jewish observers.
cal children's agencies it placed
these boys and girls in foster
plot to convince a sympathetic world that nothing has hap-
homes and institutions throughout
the country, and most of them
pened, that the Jews do not need to go to Palestine, that all
have now grown into Young Am-
erican men and women," he point-
is exaggerated. Oh yes. It is a plot.
ed out.
It is a case of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion all
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
MOSCOW (JTA) — A consider-
of the American Jewish Congress,
over again. A charge of a Jewish plot to dupe the whole
issued a statement lauding Presi- able number of Polish Jews who
By BERL CORALNIK
world. Jews are to blame. Their sufferings, their misery, their
dent Truman's action as paving are now in the USSR intend to re-
(JTA Correspondent)
the way for the full use of U. S. main where they are, it was re-
wretchedness are forgotten. Their claims for fair treatment,
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Eluding immigration quotas for the bene- ported here by Berl Mark, leader
the central committee of Polish--
for common justice are not even to be considered. A plot! British naval craft, shore patrols fit of the displaced persons in Eu- of
and radar stations, the 200-ton rope. Leasing J. Rosenwald, presi- Jews in the Soviet Union.
Oh false England! That permits such a thing. Are your motor ship Chana Szenes slipped dent of the American Council for The Polish-Jewish leader stated
into Palestinian waters this week Judaism, telegraphed Truman, ex- that seventy percent of the Polish
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and disembarked 300 Jewish immi- pressing his thanks for the Presi- Jews who are now residing in
grants without immigration certi- dent's directives expediting immi- Russia have found employment in
ficates.
gration of displaced persons to the industrial enterprises, many of
The landing was disclosed when United States at the rate of 3,900 them in the metallurgical indus-
tries.
the vessel, named after a Pales- a month.
tinian Jewish girl parachutist who
A combination of sad tenderness was executed by the Germans in
and iron strength makes a strange Hungary while on a mission for
personality out of Dora Stern, now the British, was found abandoned
living with relatives here in De- within 300 yards of an encamp-
troit. Until almost the end of the ment of the • Arab Transjordan
CINCINNATI, Ohio — "The dis-
war, Dora and her little sister Frontier Force.
tinction you bestow upon me be-
Rosa were inmates at the no-
Flying from the ship was a
longs to the strongest and most
torious Nazi concentration camp blue-and-white banner on which
impressive ones of my life, and
at Oswieciem is Poland.
was the following inscription in
will always remain dear to me,"
The tale she tells is harrowing Hebrew: This ship has unloaded
says the renowned author and lib-
in the extreme. Some of the de- immigrants. She is named for the
eral, Dr. Thomas Mann, in a letter
tails are so frightful they cannot heroine Chana Szenes. This ship
acknowledging award of the hon-
be reported in a paper. Through- will remain as a gravestone on
orary doctorate of Hebrew Let-
the
shores
of
Palestine
for
the
6,-
out the interview, however, she
ters by the Hebrew Union College,
000,000
of
our
brothers
and
sisters
never lost her iron control. Though
America's oldest rabbinical sem-
who
perished
in
Europe.
Shame
to
from time to time an infinite sad-
inary.
the
British
government.
ness shone through ber eyes, at
Dr. Mann is a voluntary Chris-
Later
the
Haganah,
the
Jewish
other times, they lighted up at a
tian exile from Nazi Germany.
pleasant memory. At times, she self-defense organization, distrib-•
Writing to Dr. Julian Morgen-
laughed aloud at some part of her uted leaflets in Jerusalem an-
stern, president of HUC, Dr. Mann
story when -she told of certain nouncing the landing of the immi-
said:
happenings with a macabre humor grants.
"It is my urgent desire to tell
Eye-Witness Description
that bordered on the fantastic.
you, the other recipients of your
A dramatic eye-witness descrip-
Dora was born in Munkach, on
Honorary Degrees and all your
the border between Hungary and tion of how the 300 landed was
guests how much I would have
Poland twenty-four years ago. Her given by Jon Kimche, Palestine
liked to participate in this acad-
sister Rosa is now almost eighteen. correspondent of the Reuter news
emic festival. J would have loved
They lived happily with their par- agency.
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DR. THOMAS MANN
(Continued on page 1 6)
(Continued on page 12)
Rosa
Dora
Cousin

Welcome Ready
For Jews To Be
Admitted To U.S.

Immigrants Land
In Palestine After
Abandoning Ship

Polish Jews In
Russia Intend To
Stay Permanently

Sisters Who Lived Through Camp
Oswieciem Tell Their Experiences

Dr. Mann, tamed German Writer,
Grateful For New Honorary Degree

